Title
Quality and psychosocial factors influencing purchase of orange-fleshed sweet potato bread
Date Issued
01 March 2021
Access level
open access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
Okello J.J.
Shiundu F.M.
Mwende J.
Lagerkvist C.J.
Nyikal R.A.
Muoki P.
Mburu J.
Low J.
Heck S.
International Potato Center
Publisher(s)
Blackwell Publishing Ltd
Abstract
This 2018 study, conducted in six Tusky's supermarkets in Nairobi, Kenya, combined the Just-About-Right, Penalty and Mean-End-Chain analyses to examine the quality and psychosocial factors influencing the purchase of a novel bread made from orange-fleshed sweet potato (OFSP), a biofortified crop, focusing on sixty-one male and eighty female urban OFSP bread buyers recruited at point of purchase. It finds that sensory and psychosocial factors drive purchasing decisions and that some of the bread's sensory characteristics are misaligned with consumers' expectations. It also finds that women and men’s evaluations of the bread's characteristics are different, as are their motivations for purchase. However, good sensory attributes and the knowledge of the bread's nutritional value were key drivers. Some misaligned characteristics reveal levers for the reformulation of the bread and present opportunities for segmenting the market. Several other implications of the findings for policy and future improvement of the bread are discussed.
Start page
1432
End page
1446
Volume
56
Issue
3
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Agricultura Alimentos y bebidas
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85096633416
Source
International Journal of Food Science and Technology
ISSN of the container
09505423
Sponsor(s)
The authors thank Tuskys Supermarkets management for granting permission to conduct the interviews within their stores. We especially gratefully thank Mr. Simon Gule for the invaluable support in coordinating the OFSP bread production during the study. The research leading to this study was undertaken as part of, and funded by, the CGIAR Research Program on Roots, Tubers and Bananas (RTB) Crosscutting Cluster 5.1 and supported by CGIAR Trust Fund contributors https://www.cgiar.org/funders/ ) and the grant opportunity ID: OPP1178942: Breeding RTB products for end user preferences (RTBfoods), to the French Agricultural Research Centre for International Development (CIRAD), Montpellier, France, by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF). Funding support for this study was also provided by USAID through the Agriculture Value Chains Development (AVCD) Project, DFID/UKAid through the Scaling Up Sweet potato for Agriculture and Nutrition (SUSTAIN) project, and the African Economic Research Consortium through the Collaborative Masters in Agricultural and Applied Economics (CMAAE) program.
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